REQUIRED TEXTS

Freud, Sigmund. On Dreams. Tr. and Ed. James Strachey. Intr. Peter Gay. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980, 1989.

Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1980.

Márquez, Gabriel García. Love in the Time of Cholera. Tr. Edith Grossman. New York: Penguin, 1988.

McDonough, Mary Lou. Comp. Poet Physicians. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1945.

Sachs, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. New York: Touchstone, 1985.

Williams, William Carlos. The Doctor Stories. Comp. And Intr. Robert Coles. New York: New Directions, 1983.

____. Selected Poems. Ed. Charles Tomlinson. New York: New Directions, 1985.
 
 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

* Midterm and Final examinations, comprehensive, essay in format.
* Three papers, one of five hundred words, which discusses the relationship between literature and medicine, the second of two thousand words, which will take the form of a prospectus for a larger writing project, the third of at least five thousand words, which will be a researched, fully-documented, original, and critical work, and which must include at least some detailed literary analysis.  The topic for the third paper is open but must be approved ahead of time by the instructor.
* Working title, thesis statement, and one paragraph description of end-of-term research paper.
* Oral reports, two of them, one to be an analysis of an assigned reading, a second to be a discussion of the end of term paper (see below).
* Bi-weekly journal (to be submitted on diskette on 11/4).
* All papers must be word processed on 8 1/2" x 11" paper, double-spaced with one inch margins, spell-checked, and to the best of one's ability grammar-checked.  If on occasion use is made of the ideas or words of someone else in one's writing, then the source(s) of those ideas and/or words must be cited; that is, when appropriate, papers must be fully documented (you must cite sources--using footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical documentation, which include specific page numbers keyed to particular passages in your text, and complete bibliographical information).  PAPERS NOT MEETING ALL OF THESE REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE READ AND WILL NOT RECEIVE CREDIT.

COURSE SCHEDULE

I: Introduction to the course.
II: Freud (and Gay): ix-32.
III: Freud: 33-76.
IV: Sachs: vii-84.
V: Sachs: 87-125. First Paper Due.
VI: Sachs: 129-170.
VII: Sachs: 173-233.
VIII: Williams, Doctor Stories: vii-41.
IX: Williams, Doctor Stories: 42-91.
X: Williams, Doctor Stories: 92-142.
XI: Lorde: 9-23. Working title, thesis statement, and one paragraph description of end-of-term research paper due.
XII: Lorde: 24-77.
XIII: MIDTERM EXAMINATION.
XIV: Williams, Selected Poems: vii-36.
XV: Williams, Selected Poems: 39-85
XVI: Williams, Selected Poems: 89-136.
XVII: Williams, Selected Poems: 139-196.
XVIII: Williams, Selected Poems: 199-233.
XIX: Williams, Selected Poems: 237-297.
XX: Poet Physicians: Selections: 1-31.
XXI: Poet Physicians: Selections: 32-62. Prospectus (second paper), consisting of Introduction, Section Descriptions, Conclusion, and Bibliography due.
XXII: Márquez: 1-103.
XXIII: Márquez: 105-163.
XXIV: Márquez: 165-278.
XXV: Márquez: 279-348.
XXVI: Student Journal Entries.
XXVII: Student Journal Entries.
XXVIII: Oral Reports on term papers.
XXIX: FINAL EXAMINATION.  Term paper due.
 

COURSE GRADE

Oral Reports   10%
Journal   5%
First Paper  5%
Second Paper (Prospectus) 15%
End of Term Paper  25%
Midterm Examination  10%
Final Examination  30%